iTunes is the world's easiest way to organize and add to your digital media collection.

We are unable to find iTunes on your computer. To preview and buy music from The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (A Martin Scorsese Picture) by Bob Dylan, download iTunes now.

Editors’ Notes

Rarities, discoveries, and in-concert landmarks fill the soundtrack of Martin Scorsese's documentary covering Bob Dylan's early years. Among the surprises is a 1959 home recording of a soft-voiced Dylan singing "When I Got Troubles." Another highlight is a version of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" that rings like a conversational tribute to both its author and its subject. Of course, Dylan's turn toward electric rock 'n' roll is well-represented here; a menacing alternate take of "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" demonstrates that rock and Chicago blues were the man's music as surely as any ancient ballad. The set climaxes with the 1966 "Judas!" take of "Like a Rolling Stone." The majesty and threat conjured by Dylan and The Hawks remain awe-inspiring.

Customer Reviews

Maggies Farm live

by
Pete3432692384

This will go down in history as when Dylan went electric and Pete Seeger went insane cause he "couldnt hear the words". Fuggetaboudit! This is just the best version of the song. Dylan and Butterfield Blues Band. (when I saw Dylan in Chicago in 1997 the only time he talked was when he said "Just wanna say hi to my old friend Sam Lay") Mike Bloomfield's guitar pre-dates Robbie Robertson's- it blisters it explodes.... This is the band Dylan wanted to tour with.. just an amazing performance.

Poppycock

by
jon111111111111111111

Itunes really needs to stop this "album only" track buying. The beauty of getting to buy individual tracks is so fans aren't twisted into having to purchase the same song over and over. I have a majority of these tracks from the other bootleg series, the one track I really want from this album is desolation row, that of course is locked.

Ok album

by
Afieldshizzle

Why isn't Mr. Tambourine man live at the Newport folk festival on this album

Biography

Born: May 24, 1941 in Duluth, MN

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Bob Dylan's influence on popular music is incalculable. As a songwriter, he pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from confessional singer/songwriter to winding, hallucinatory, stream-of-consciousness narratives. As a vocalist, he broke down the notion that a singer must have a conventionally good voice in order to perform, thereby redefining the vocalist's role in popular music. As a musician, he sparked several genres of pop music, including electrified folk-rock and country-rock....